John Fowles The Magus Quotes

#1. What has patriotism come to be but greed and false pride, when the only way it can show itself is by shedding blood to gain gold? More economic advantage, more territory, more power.

Sylvia Thompson

#2. When you love me, it's as if God forgave me for being the mess I am.

John Fowles

#3. Maybe 10 times a year I'll do a corporate date, but no casinos or no nightclubs or no comedy clubs.

Gabe Kaplan

#4. I thought the whole idea of being a conservative was to keep the government from messing around in people's lives. And yet they say the government should be getting into people's families. That's messing pretty heavily where I come from.

Edward Zigler

#5. We must measure what leads to results, not simply what is easy to measure.

Charles Koch

#6. To deal with future we have to deal with possibilities. Analysis will only tell us what is.

Edward De Bono

#7. What had always attracted me in the opposite sex was what they tried to hide, what provoked all the metaphorical equivalents of seducing them out of their clothes into nakedness.

John Fowles

#8. Egdar Derby, mournfully pregnant with patriotism and middle age and imaginary wisdom. And so on.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#9. The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.

Muhammad Iqbal

#10. Real painters understand with a brush in their hand.

Berthe Morisot

#11. Let those love now who've never loved; let those who've loved, love yet again.

John Fowles

#12. I had got away from what I hated, but I hadn't found where I loved, and so I pretended that there was nowhere to love.

John Fowles